Previous recipients list includes spam addresses

When exploring Mail's Previous Recipients List, I notice a large number of addresses that are junk or spam mail. Some show a Last Used date that is quite recent.
I had thought that addresses are added to the PR List only when they are used as an addressee on sent email. I don't see anything in my Sent mailbox that would indicate that I (even inadvertently) sent mail to these Spam addresses.
Does the presence of the spam addresses indicate a problem? If working as designed, what is the purpose of keeping the spam address in the PR list?

I too have experienced a recent spam deluge and today I looked in my previous recipients window and found a bunch of spam addresses.  I deleted them and let's hope that helps.  I did find an older discussion on this forum where someone said that if you mark an item in your junk folder as "not junk" it gets added to your previous recipients folder.  I have been trying diligently to mark all of my spam as spam (clicking the thumbs down button in the toolbar), so maybe I have accidentally approved some of it in that process.  Will stop doing that.  But I was doing that in response to the spam deluge, so I don't think that's what started it.  Might be making it worse.  Will start checking my previous recipients window and make sure to delete any spam in there.

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